Makes sense too.. I guess in the end it all becomes a case of - is the client willing to pay for your extra time required to apply all these hacks.
Having worked for several government bodies I am afraid to say I have NEVER worked with %, simply because it looked like a paint to work with. And the only downfall I see in using pixels is due to the fact IE (some versions) can't scale it. (the only sites I developed for the gorvernment were Intranet, so don't come down to hard on me ;-) I'll give it a go though at some stage. -----Original Message----- From: russ weakley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 December 2003 2:19 PM To: Web Standards Group Subject: Re: [WSG] Re: px em pt ??? Sorry for the length of this... 1. All government sites are supposed to follow WAI guideline - which recommend the use of relative font sizes. 2. The aim is to give users the option. Saying that users can change their screen resolution is throwing the responsibility back onto them - it is our job to make it as easy as possible for all users to see our content. 3. There are many different users out there with a wide variety of vision impairments from mildly reduced eyesight to totally blind. Each of these groups has specific needs and we have to keep them all in mind. We have done extensive testing with a wide range of these groups. I really recommend all web designers and developers sit with both blind and near blind users and watch them use your sites. It changes your perspective on accessiblity. One quick example to do with pixels: people with severe eye problems (close to blind) would probably be using assistive technologies such as Zoom Text- software based screen enlargers that can increase parts of the screen up to 400-600%. Pixel based fonts become a real issue for these people as there are often not enough pixels to render a font properly. I sat with a woman testing one of my sites were a footer was set to 12px and saw that the text was unreadable for her. Fonts in nearby areas of the page that were relatively positioned were able to be read easily. 4. Relative font sizing is very easy to manage as long as you understand two things: 1. The document tree 2. inheritance Relative font sizes will be inherited by items lower down the tree. EG. Nested lists set with 80% will inherit and be reduced to 80% x 80% = 64%. To solve this problem, place your relative font declarations at one level of the document tree or pay attention to how they can cascade and affect your content. It is easy to reverse the effect with rules like: ul ul { font-size: 100%;} Russ > > thats a good one... > It makes sense what you are saying, to me anyway. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Miles Tillinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 10 December 2003 1:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [WSG] Re: px em pt ??? > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ ***************************************************** ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************